The story of artificial intelligence

play_review The Imitation Game

Is it a human or a machine on the other side? We'll let the imitation game decide.

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adriurrego3 1956 Dartmouth Workshop on AI

Dartmouth '56, a summer's bright call, McCarthy said 'AI,' inventing it all! New future begins, for machines that can think.

Jun 24

play_review The birth of thinking machines

When minds of silicon began to grow, At Dartmouth's meeting, the seeds would sow.

Jun 23

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dina_guizar A rooster's vibrant feathers and loud crow signal a new day.

Jun 21

Before screens, coding was just plugging physical wires into glowing walls.

raul See how programmers coded using physical wires and plugboards before screens. Discover the fascinating history of early computer technology now.

The ultimate test for modern AI was actually written by hand in 1950.

raul Explore the history of the Turing Test. Learn how Alan Turing's 1950 paper shaped the ultimate benchmark for modern artificial intelligence.

Turing created our ultimate test for AI using a 1950 parlor game.

raul See how Alan Turing turned a 1950 parlor game into the Turing Test, the ultimate benchmark for AI. Explore this visual history of computer science.

Before the cloud, the first AI systems ran entirely on stacks of paper cards.

raul Explore the history of AI before the cloud. See how early artificial intelligence systems ran on paper punched cards in this educational visual guide.

La inteligencia artificial comenzó como un proyecto de verano en 1956.

raul Descubre el origen de la inteligencia artificial con esta imagen histórica. Explora cómo nació la IA en el famoso proyecto de verano de 1956.

Turing didn't crack Enigma alone - Joan Clarke's math was just as critical.

raul Explore the vital role mathematician Joan Clarke played alongside Alan Turing in cracking the WWII Enigma code. See the untold story.

Joan Clarke was officially hired as a clerk while solving Enigma with Turing.

raul Discover how Joan Clarke, working alongside Alan Turing, was officially hired as a clerk while solving the Nazi Enigma code at Bletchley Park.

We were trying to teach machines to think long before we even had microchips.

raul Discover how early innovators tried to teach machines to think long before modern microchips. Explore the fascinating history of AI and computing.

Our most advanced AI started as a hand-wired maze solver back in 1951.

raul Discover the origins of artificial intelligence. See how modern AI evolved from a simple hand-wired maze solver in 1951. View the historic image.

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Quiz

In 1948, the computer science pioneer Alan Turing co-created one of the world's first chess-playing algorithms. Since computers of the era were not powerful enough to execute it, he had to calculate its moves by hand using pencil and paper. What was the name of this early 'paper machine'?

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Quiz

In 1948, computer scientist Alan Turing co-created one of the first chess-playing programs, called Turochamp. Since computers of that era were not yet powerful enough to run the code, how did Turing test Turochamp in a famous 1952 match?

play_review Alan Turing and the imitation game

play_review Early programmers focused on games like chess and checkers to prove that computers could handle complex human strategy.

Fun Fact

First AI music: In 1951, Alan Turing used a giant computer to record three songs, including the British national anthem.

play_review In 1956, a small group of scientists gathered at Dartmouth College and officially coined the term artificial intelligence.

Glossary

artificial intelligence (noun)
The simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. John McCarthy coined the term in 1956 during a seminal workshop at Dartmouth College.